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“biodiversity”

Feb
24
2010

Waiting to Inhale: Deep-Ocean Low-Oxygen Zones Spreading to Shallower Coastal Waters

Oxygen-deprived areas in the world’s oceans usually found in deeper water are moving up to offshore areas and threatening coastal marine ecosystems by spurring the die-off of some species and overpopulation of others By Michael Tennesen | Scientific American | February 23, 2010 A plague of oxygen-deprived waters from the deep ocean is creeping up [...]